Chapter 186: Butterfly
Under the multiple blows, the chaotic people huddled together could not move forward, and the number was decreasing in an alarming number, if it was an ordinary army that suffered such a large number of casualties, it would have been crushed a long time ago, but these 'people' were not afraid of this emotion at all. And they also have the advantage of being like a perpetual motion machine, which humans can't support for a long time in such high-intensity combat.
This was the case with the absolute discipline of the Rhodoc Legion as a professional army, and they began to rest in an orderly rotation. The soldiers in the front row retreated to the sound of the changing trumpets after every ten minutes of battle, retreating through the gap between men to the rear, and the soldiers in the back row immediately raised their huge shields, and in the face of these fierce enemies, these soldiers showed great courage, and not a single one of them showed panic during the strict and orderly exchange.
During this constant rotational rest, the Legion maintained its physical strength in the face of the enemy, and the fierce battle continued for a full two hours, and Stannis estimated that they had killed at least a thousand Chaos Folks.
Just when he thought he would be able to hold out until reinforcements arrived, critical emergencies would always arise in the right situation.
A soldier hurriedly ran over and said in a panic: "Your Excellency Stennis, the monsters that have appeared from the Black Forest on the west side have begun to attack! In just ten minutes, we have lost half of our casualties, and now Fibos and Your Excellency Tulania are struggling to drive them down the river, and they are in urgent need of reinforcements!"
Stannis bit his lip, he had drawn Barrow's army out as a reserve for this purpose, and he immediately divided half of the soldiers and half of the foot archers to follow the soldier to support the west.
After a while, another soldier came to report that the cliff to the east was also in danger, and Stannis sent the remaining half of his troops over, and now that his last hole cards had been played, he had to resign himself to fate. If the enemy braved the fire to cross the trench, he had no reserves left, and only himself and Robert could go up to resist.
However, the frontal battlefield is also beginning to be urgent, although the corpses of the Chaos Folk falling into the fire will only leave ashes, but countless ashes are stacked on top of each other, not only extinguishing the flames on both sides of the road, but even creating a new passage wide for one person!
Vibius had no extra forces to fill the gap, and the Chaos Folk had discovered this, and the first monster jumped into the flames, widening the path with the ashes they had left behind, and finally a team of scythes had rushed from the corpse-paved path and killed the crossbowmen.
"It's over!" Stannis shouted, knowing that the ranged soldiers would only be slaughtered if they were approached.
But then he learned why the crossbowmen also carried broad shields and short swords. The crossbowmen unexpectedly discharged the same tortoiseshell formations as the pikemen, and waved their short swords to kill the enemy and force them back!
"What! A crossbowman can fight better than a pikeman!
Stannis also noticed a large group of Chaos people on the other side of the frozen river to the south, who looked to have just transformed into monsters, with the clothes they wore as humans.
Vibius's face turned iron-blue, and for the first time Stannis could read the look of fear on the iron-clad face.
"Oops, looks like there's a hybrid boss this time......"
"Chief!" Stannis hurriedly looked, and sure enough, before the group of newly emerging monsters, he found an even larger monster, it seemed to be composed of several bodies glued, the arms and legs were mutated by a whole person, and their faces could be seen before they were alive, and the torso was made up of three or four complete bodies, and at the top, extended the upper body of a strong man, just like the dragon rider of the Eternal Child that he had met before, which looked well-preserved, and there were still arms and skulls on his body.
In the leader's hand was a bloody 'flag', like the others, with a torso strung on it, and although the limbs and head had been cut off, it was still recognizable that it was made of a woman's body.
"It looks like the situation is getting a little tricky! we must not let that hybrid beast leader approach us, otherwise we will not be able to stop it with our current strength. ”
With that, Vibius pulled down his armor and led the last pair of crossbowmen into the battle ahead.
As the roads paved with ash grew, so did the cross-section that Rhodok's legion had to defend, and in the end, even Robert had to draw his sword and join the battle.
Now only Stannis is left in the reserves......
But the enemy's offensive did not slow down in the slightest, the form was getting worse, the Rhodok army began to suffer casualties, and after the death of those in front, the people behind immediately came to the top, they did not have time to grieve for the death of their comrades, and the blood seeped into the snow and moistened the soil at the bottom.
"Boss, on the right!" Robert shouted to Stannis as he took the time to fight, and the latter noticed this, and a mass of Chaos people slowly approached the trench under the leadership of their leader.
They weren't trying to force their way through the flame barrier!, Stannis didn't even think about it, he immediately ran there, and when he ran to the monster gathering place, he found that the worst thing had happened, that is, these brainless creatures actually started to 'build their own paths'!
Although there was no verbal communication, one Chaos Folk jumped into the flames one after another, extinguishing the flames with their own ashes.
There is no doubt that the leader commanded them to do this, and sure enough, this kind of boss-level monster is the intellectual responsibility.
After jumping hundreds of monsters, a path for one person finally appeared, and Stannis was the only one guarding the front!
"No, I don't want to be a hero for a second!"
Facing the knife-sharpening and hideous-looking monster on the other side of the trench, Stannis swallowed his saliva, but he still drew his twin swords, ready to add a dragon roar buff to himself, how long can it be delayed!
The Chaos Folk began to pass unhurriedly through the black skeletal path, and soon surrounded Stannis, who didn't seem to take his life immediately, their ribs fanning inside and out, as if calling for something.
It dawned on Stannis that they wanted to sacrifice themselves to the leader!
He looked up in despair, and found that the huge body in the distance was slowly approaching here, and the body of the woman the leader was holding up was wrapped in blood, which was particularly eye-catching.
It's like the butterfly on her chest that seems to be fluttering......
Stannis felt that time had stopped, and with a single glance, he recognized the tattoo, whose owner had snuggled up to him not long ago.
Deborah, she's dead......
You don't deserve to end up like this, do you? You also want to reunite with your fiancé and let the goddess of the moon witness your love again......
But she still died, in this most cruel way......
Stannis silently raised his head, fire and frost alternating between his hands, the real killing would only begin now.
And the roles of both sides have changed...